Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash is one of the great unadapted novels of modern science fiction, right up there with its granddaddy in the cyberpunk genre, William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Given how screen-ready some of Snow Crash’smost famous sequences are, though—most notably, the high-speed, action-heavy pizza delivery…

It’s an exciting time for short animated films. In addition to the ones churned out by Pixar and Disney and attached to their movies, there’s also an explosion of creative voices bringing their animations to audiences via the web. Some, like Tokyo Cosmo, are part of a larger festival offering. But others are simply…